k-Step Nilpotent Lie Algebras

The classification of complex of real finite dimensional Lie algebras which are not semi simple is still in its early stages. For example the nilpotent Lie algebras are classified only up to the dimension 7. Moreover, to recognize a given Lie algebra in a classification list is not so easy. In this work we propose a different approach to this problem. We determine families for some fixed invariants, the classification follows by a deformation process or contraction process. We focus on the case of 2 and 3-step nilpotent Lie algebras. We describe in both cases a deformation cohomology of this type of algebras and the algebras which are rigid regarding this cohomology. Other $p$-step nilpotent Lie algebras are obtained by contraction of the rigid ones.Comment: 18 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1201.267

Characteristically nilpotent Lie algebras : a survey

We review the known results about characteristically nilpotent complex Lie algebras, as well as we comment recent developements in the theory.Comment: Latex, 42 page

Breadth and characteristic sequence of nilpotent Lie algebras

The notion of breadth of a nilpotent Lie algebra was introduced by B. Khuhirun, K.C. Misra and E. Stitzinger and used to approach problems of classification up to isomorphism. In the present paper, we study this invariant in terms of characteristic sequence, another invariant introduced by M. Goze and J.M. Ancochea-Bermudez. This permits to complete the determination of Lie algebras of breadth 2 and to begin the work for Lie algebras with breadth greater than 2.Comment: 12 page

Enveloping algebras of restricted Lie superalgebras satisfying non-matrix polynomial identities

Let L be a restricted Lie superalgebra with its enveloping algebra u(L) over a field F of characteristic p>2. A polynomial identity is called non-matrix if it is not satisfied by the algebra of 2\times 2 matrices over F. We characterize L when u(L) satisfies a non-matrix polynomial identity. In particular, we characterize L when u(L) is Lie solvable, Lie nilpotent, or Lie super-nilpotent.Comment: proofs of some of the statements are shortened along with transparent ideas, some typos are fixe

Lie algebras with associative structures. Applications to the study of 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras

We investigate Lie algebras whose Lie bracket is also an associative or cubic associative multiplication to characterize the class of nilpotent Lie algebras with a nilindex equal to 2 or 3. In particular we study the class of 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras, their deformations and we compute the cohomology which parametrize the deformations in this class.Comment: 17 page

The Nash-Moser Theorem of Hamilton and rigidity of finite dimensional nilpotent Lie algebras

We apply the Nash-Moser theorem for exact sequences of R. Hamilton to the context of deformations of Lie algebras and we discuss some aspects of the scope of this theorem in connection with the polynomial ideal associated to the variety of nilpotent Lie algebras. This allows us to introduce the space $H_{k-nil}^2(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g})$, and certain subspaces of it, that provide fine information about the deformations of $\mathfrak{g}$ in the variety of $k$-step nilpotent Lie algebras. Then we focus on degenerations and rigidity in the variety of $k$-step nilpotent Lie algebras of dimension $n$ with $n\le7$ and, in particular, we obtain rigid Lie algebras and rigid curves in the variety of 3-step nilpotent Lie algebras of dimension 7. We also recover some known results and point out a possible error in a published article related to this subject.Comment: Accepted in J. of Pure and Applied Algebra. The structure of the paper has been bearly modified to follow the referee's suggestion

The geometric classification of Leibniz algebras

We describe all rigid algebras and all irreducible components in the variety of four dimensional Leibniz algebras $\mathfrak{Leib}_4$ over $\mathbb{C}.$ In particular, we prove that the Grunewald--O'Halloran conjecture is not valid and the Vergne conjecture is valid for $\mathfrak{Leib}_4.

Minimal metrics on nilmanifolds

A left invariant metric on a nilpotent Lie group is called minimal, if it minimizes the norm of the Ricci tensor among all left invariant metrics with the same scalar curvature. Such metrics are unique up to isometry and scaling and the groups admitting a minimal metric are precisely the nilradicals of (standard) Einstein solvmanifolds. If $N$ is endowed with an invariant symplectic, complex or hypercomplex structure, then minimal compatible metrics are also unique up to isometry and scaling. The aim of this paper is to give more evidence of the existence of minimal metrics, by presenting several explicit examples. This also provides many continuous families of symplectic, complex and hypercomplex nilpotent Lie groups. A list of all known examples of Einstein solvmanifolds is also given.Comment: 18 page

Quantizations of regular functions on nilpotent orbits

We study the quantizations of the algebras of regular functions on nilpotent orbits. We show that such a quantization always exists and is unique if the orbit is birationally rigid. Further we show that, for special birationally rigid orbits, the quantization has integral central character in all cases but four (one orbit in E_7 and three orbits in E_8). We use this to complete the computation of Goldie ranks for primitive ideals with integral central character for all special nilpotent orbits but one (in E_8). Our main ingredient is results on the geometry of normalizations of the closures of nilpotent orbits by Fu and Namikawa.Comment: 17 page

Generic properties of 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras and torsion-free groups

To define the notion of a generic property of finite dimensional 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras we use standard correspondence between such Lie algebras and points of an appropriate algebraic variety, where a negligible set is one contained in a proper Zariski-closed subset. We compute the maximal dimension of an abelian subalgebra of a generic Lie algebra and give a sufficient condition for a generic Lie algebra to admit no surjective homomorphism onto a non-abelian Lie algebra of a given dimension. Also we consider analogous questions for finitely generated torsion free nilpotent groups of class 2.Comment: 16 page